daddyairplanes

well few things for starters do the stock controls work?("+" for throtle up, arrow keys for up down left and right)? what other controller are you using? finally are you literally using the same controller you last used 11 years ago? like pulled out a drawer, not bought a new copy of the old gear?

very nice, although these guys didnt have to cross the whole ocean to get to Michigan

NKAWTG, even after retirement from government work

im not TW, i dont run the store. my point is that i spent $40 increments getting the parts i wanted most, then the next most and so on until i had it all. but that was buying each part instead of the whole box set the $100 edition is the box set, everything at once. actually saves money over buying each piece over time (it also wasnt available when i was doing that) you do you want to within the limits your budget constrains you to

she may be old, but she has frankly an even bigger third party support crew than DCS with over 5000 various mods to add to the stock games

to answer why get it in portions over the course of a year as you can afford it. maybe get SF2 Europe first, then Vietnam or North Atlantic to have carriers a few months later. etc etc its the route i wound up taking, and probably still would have taken as my mind and budget would have justified several $40 purchases over time rather than $100 at once

there's tons of pics out there of Reserve birds with Eagle "kill" marks from the mid 70s. but for perspective, the Reservists had all done time over Vietnam, while the Eagle crews were just learning their jets as well as writing the book on how to employ them. they engagements i heared about the most were DACT between VF-202 out of Dallas and Eagles from the training wing out of Luke. not so sure about the Viper, unless the pilot did something incredibly stupid (like try to fight with stores still on). it was a revolutionary leap all around, for instance with Viper teams taking top place in bomb comps using just the basic computer and dumb bombs. well before they got "smart" with the Block 40s and 50s. the only advantage the Phantom had at the time was long range Sparrow shots, but she was on the way out the door when the Viper actually started using Sparrow capability and fully taking in the Arizona sun when they got AMRAAMs cleared hell, B-52 tail gunners got lucky at Red Flag when Eagles tried for a gun kill, and A-10s have some cool gun camera phootage of all the teens when they'd try to get into the Hog's element (low and slow)

95% of people on this planet period are just trying to get along and make life a little bit better for themselves and thier families its the noisy 5% of the others that screw it up for the rest of us

actually for its original intended purpose (fly 250 miles from the base/carrier fast, launch missiles, kill bombers) it was quite well suited, and many of the short nosed Phantoms found themselves in interceptor roles in their twilight years now if you meant dogfighter, no. no it wasnt designed nor good at the turning fight. which is why the branch fighter weapon schools turned around and stresses fighting in the vertical, or keeping the speed way up during the engagement

the Battle of Topeka, in an alternate 1987...

which is what prompted the question

thank you Allen, that answered the question (Europe only)

have the F-4D_78? i know Israel and Vietnam would be off the list, while Europe definately has it. what about the original and or North Atlantic?

London Ontario, May '88 Dayton Ohio Jun '88. really, why did they change the Iranian flag to a Syrian one? watching the practice run on a Thursday, summer '88

if your using my tail num template, a good way to do door numbers is to do tail nums first, then turn off the "AFxx" layer and save the three digit num as the nose number. the Tinker Phantoms i pm'd you last week have the decal entry for that so you dont have to dance it around so much

i would venture to say no, as almost all were in training units or ANG units by 1984, and the focus was more on getting the next generation in, not upgrading the older one.

those jetliners seem strangely familiar meanwhile, here's a pair of Phantoms based a little closer to your Michigan terrain (note to crew chief: 554 is missing two red stars on splitter plate)

482d Tac Fighter Wing

again, sometime you gotta make your own patches

happy scene unhappy scene (with little green blobs for extra anger)

Tinker MiG Killers '87 Tinker SF2, 2025

huge thanks to the guys that did Nam Phantom skins back in the WoV era. made extending teh Hill 2 as a decal so much easier as im fond of saqying..... same skin

you know your ride might be cool, but will it ever be "has a Lou Drendel painting of its MiG kill on the door" cool?

Sierra Hotel...